Tools: watermelon, full set of carving knives, pencils.

1. Choose a watermelon with a positive shape. The shape of watermelon should be determined according to the pattern you want to carve. For example, if you want to carve your face, find a slightly longer watermelon. If you want to carve flowers, choose a round watermelon. Different watermelons are suitable for carving different patterns.

2. Wash the watermelon for later use, choose a medium-sized meat cleaver, first draw a pattern on the melon skin with a pencil, and then use the meat cleaver to remove the outermost hard skin, paying attention to removing only a thin layer to expose the white flesh of the watermelon skin. Of course, some styles require keeping watermelon skin.

3. At the beginning of carving, the first step is to set the shape. Setting is to carve with a carving knife according to the mark of pencil drawing, and carve off the excess melon skin. According to the shape, use various methods such as digging, hollowing out and cutting to slowly present the pattern you want.

4. Step 2, elaborate according to the desired shape, make efforts to make the lines smooth, fine and transparent, and make an artistic shape with neat plane, strong three-dimensional sense and vivid and lovely shape.

5. When carving, you can choose the whole watermelon for modeling, or you can choose a part of watermelon for carving. Watermelon carving can have unlimited creativity. Birds, figures, flowers, etc. Can be used as carving materials. Beginners can learn step by step from simple to difficult.